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African American candidates for state and federal office in the
United States face unique challenges, given the nation's
complicated racial dynamics. To date, there have been only two
elected African American governors in the country, the first
elected in Virginia in 1989 and the second in Massachusetts in
2006. While Black candidates running statewide have been elected in
increasing numbers in many areas of the country, there have been
fewer successes in the US South. The relative lack of success in
the South for Black candidates is puzzling given that, as a
percentage of the population, the South has the highest
concentration of African American citizens. This book examines the
campaigns of Black statewide candidates in the South to untangle
the factors that led to their electoral successes as well as the
factors that continue to stymie positive electoral results. Looking
at broader regional demographic and political trends, the authors
project that the South is on the threshold of a major breakthrough
for African American statewide candidates, who will have a
substantial role in not only fundamentally changing the political
dynamics of the region, but the nation as well. This change will be
driven not only by Black candidates and voters, but a rising
regional coalition of racial minority and white voters who are
increasingly willing to vote for Black candidates.
In recent years, interest in religion and politics at the national
level has surged while extensive activity at the state level has
gone largely unnoticed. Yet, with state government budgets
increasing exponentially over the past three decades, churches and
religious organizations are focusing tremendous energy and
resources toward influencing the ways states are spending their
money and governing their populace. In this groundbreaking
collection, Edward Cleary and Allen Hertzke bring together nine new
essays that provide the first systematic, comparative view of
religion and politics at the state level. These essays take an
in-depth look at the pressing issues facing states across the
nation and how religious lobbies and organizations are addressing
them. By examining the responses of different denominations and
their rationales for involvement, the contributors explore the
enormous diversity of interests being represented at the state
level. As highly controversial programs and laws continue to divide
state governments, Representing God at the Statehouse provides an
important look at the current state of religion and democracy.
Shifting the focal point from incumbency to open seat competition
in the U.S. House of Representatives is the task this book
embraces. In the process, the authors demonstrate the importance of
candidates and competition, and the role of money, gender, and
special elections in determining how open seats get filled and when
partisan changes occur.
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The 2020 Presidential Election in the South
Scott E Buchanan, Branwell DuBose Kapeluck; Contributions by Jay Barth, J. Michael Bitzer, Shannon L Bridgmon, …
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The 2020 Presidential Election in the South details how the 2020
presidential election developed in the twelve states of the South.
This edited volume features preeminent scholars of Southern
politics who analyze the momentous Election of 2020. In addition to
chapters organized by state, this volume also focuses upon the
issues that drove southern voters, the nominations process in early
2020, as well as a chapter focusing on where the region may be
headed politically in the next decade. In addition, each state
chapter includes analysis on notable congressional races and
important patterns at the state level. The authors also provide
keen insight into the ever-changing political patterns in the
region. Since the South continues to evolve in terms of politics
and demographic shifts, this book will be an important tool for
academics. However, the book will also enlighten journalists and
political enthusiasts seeking a deeper understanding of
contemporary changes in Southern electoral politics.
This book will prepare readers for the redistricting of
congressional, state legislative, and local collegial bodies that
will follow the 2010 Census. Almost every state legislature will
devote extensive time to redrawing its own districts along with the
state's congressional districts during 2011-2012. Chapters 2
through 5 cover the major factors involved in drawing the new maps.
These are arranged in the order of their legal prominence beginning
with the need for equal populations before moving to the obligation
to avoid discriminating against minorities. Chapter 4 examines the
other elements weighed by those redrawing districts: compactness,
respect for political boundaries and communities of interest.
Chapter 5 deals with partisan considerations and consequences of
redistricting. More than any other state, Georgia has probably been
the locale for more precedent-setting cases and had more difficulty
securing Department of Justice approval of its districting plans.
Chapter 6 uses Georgia as a case study to demonstrate the
application of a number of concepts discussed in the preceding four
chapters. The seventh chapter provides a preview of the post-2010
redistricting with a discussion of projections of likely
congressional reapportionment. The final chapter also considers how
the changes in the Voting Rights Act adopted in 2006 may affect the
next round of redistricting.
On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision
in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting
rights law. The decision - the culmination of an eight-year battle
over the power of Congress to regulate state conduct of elections -
marked the closing of a chapter in American politics. That chapter
had opened a century earlier in the case of Guinn v. United States,
which ushered in national efforts to knock down racial barriers to
the ballot. A detailed and timely history, The Rise and Fall of the
Voting Rights Act analyzes changing legislation and the future of
voting rights in the United States. In tracing the development of
the Voting Rights Act from its inception, Charles S. Bullock III,
Ronald Keith Gaddie, and Justin J. Wert begin by exploring the
political and legal aspects of the Jim Crow electoral regime.
Detailing both the subsequent struggle to enact the law and its
impact, they explain why the Voting Rights Act was necessary. The
authors draw on court cases and election data to bring their
discussion to the present with an examination of the 2006 revision
and renewal of the act, and its role in shaping the southern
political environment in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections,
when Barack Obama was chosen. Bullock, Gaddie, and Wert go on to
closely evaluate the 2013 Shelby County decision, describing how
the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court created an appellate
environment that made the act ripe for a challenge. Rigorous in its
scholarship and thoroughly readable, this book goes beyond history
and analysis to provide compelling and much-needed insight into the
ways voting rights legislation has shaped the United States. The
Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act illuminates the historical
roots - and the human consequences - of a critical chapter in U.S.
legal history.
A strong case can be made that the South has had the greatest
impact of any region on the transformation of U.S. politics and
government. Since 1968, we have seen the demise of the "solid
(Democratic) South" and the rise of the Republican-dominated South;
the rise of the largely southern white evangelical religious right
movement; and demographic changes that have vastly altered the
political landscape of the region and national politics. Overriding
all of these changes is the major constant of southern politics:
race. Since the 1990s, the Republican Party has dominated politics
in the Southern United States. Race relations were a large factor
in this shift that began about a half century ago, but nonetheless,
race and demographic change are once again realigning party
politics in the region, this time back toward an emergent
Democratic Party. Membership in the Southern Democratic Party is
majority African American, Latino, and Asian, and rapidly expanding
with an influx of immigrants, primarily Latino. While race
continues to shape politics in the region, population growth is, as
this book argues, the major factor affecting politics in the South.
In fact, the populations of Georgia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, and Virginia have grown more rapidly than the population
of the nation as a whole over the past half century-and each of
these states has gained at least one seat in Congress. These growth
states are the ones in which populations are diversifying,
economies are surging, and Democrats are making headway. They,
along with Florida and Texas, are also among the most competitive
states with the largest numbers of Electoral College votes in the
region. It is likely, therefore, that among the key battlegrounds
for determining the presidency will be the southern states with the
fastest growing populations. This will especially be the case once
the Latino population in Texas mobilizes. This book describes and
analyzes the ways in which demographic change has shaped politics
in the South since the late 1960s and may enable the Democratic
Party in the future to re-take politics in the region, and even
shut out Republicans from the nation's highest office.
The death of Georgia governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in late 1946
launched a constitutional crisis that ranks as one of the most
unusual political events in U.S. history: the state had three
active governors at once, each claiming that he was the true
elected official. This is the first full-length examination of that
episode, which wasn't just a crazy quirk of Georgia politics
(though it was that) but the decisive battle in a struggle between
the state's progressive and rustic forces that had continued since
the onset of the Great Depression. In 1946, rural forces aided by
the county unit system, Jim Crow intimidation of black voters, and
the Talmadge machine's "loyal 100,000" voters united to claim the
governorship. In the aftermath, progressive political forces in
Georgia would shrink into obscurity for the better part of a
generation. In this volume is the story of how the political,
governmental, and Jim Crow social institutions not only defeated
Georgia's progressive forces but forestalled their effectiveness
for a decade and a half.
Now in its seventh edition, The New Politics of the Old South is
the best and most comprehensive analysis and history of political
behaviors and shifting demographics in America’s southern states.
Edited by leading scholars Charles S. Bullock III and Mark J.
Rozell, this book has been updated through the 2020 elections to
provide the most accurate and useful snapshot of the state of
southern politics, and the ways in which they have developed over
time. The southern electorate is a fascinating, dynamic body
politic, and the study of its evolution is paramount to
understanding the broader political developments occurring at a
national level. While accessible to any interested reader, this
edition illuminates the South’s essential and growing role in the
study, and the story, of American politics. This new edition
addresses the change in the organization of the states chapters
from “Deep South” and “Rim South” to instead “growth
states” and “stagnant states," and focuses on how the main
divisions among the southern states now impacting their politics
are economic and population growth.
Now in its seventh edition, The New Politics of the Old South is
the best and most comprehensive analysis and history of political
behaviors and shifting demographics in America's southern states.
Edited by leading scholars Charles S. Bullock III and Mark J.
Rozell, this book has been updated through the 2020 elections to
provide the most accurate and useful snapshot of the state of
southern politics, and the ways in which they have developed over
time. The southern electorate is a fascinating, dynamic body
politic, and the study of its evolution is paramount to
understanding the broader political developments occurring at a
national level. While accessible to any interested reader, this
edition illuminates the South's essential and growing role in the
study, and the story, of American politics. This new edition
addresses the change in the organization of the states chapters
from "Deep South" and "Rim South" to instead "growth states" and
"stagnant states," and focuses on how the main divisions among the
southern states now impacting their politics are economic and
population growth.
The 2020 Presidential Election in the South details how the 2020
presidential election developed in the twelve states of the South.
This edited volume features preeminent scholars of Southern
politics who analyze the momentous Election of 2020. In addition to
chapters organized by state, this volume also focuses upon the
issues that drove southern voters, the nominations process in early
2020, as well as a chapter focusing on where the region may be
headed politically in the next decade. In addition, each state
chapter includes analysis on notable congressional races and
important patterns at the state level. The authors also provide
keen insight into the ever-changing political patterns in the
region. Since the South continues to evolve in terms of politics
and demographic shifts, this book will be an important tool for
academics. However, the book will also enlighten journalists and
political enthusiasts seeking a deeper understanding of
contemporary changes in Southern electoral politics.
This authoritative overview of election redistricting at the
congressional, state legislative, and local level provides offers
an overview of redistricting for students and practitioners. The
updated second edition pays special attention to the significant
redistricting controversies of the last decade, from the Supreme
Court to state courts.
This authoritative overview of election redistricting at the
congressional, state legislative, and local level provides offers
an overview of redistricting for students and practitioners. The
updated second edition pays special attention to the significant
redistricting controversies of the last decade, from the Supreme
Court to state courts.
The death of Georgia governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in late 1946
launched a constitutional crisis that ranks as one of the most
unusual political events in U.S. history: the state had three
active governors at once, each claiming that he was the true
elected official. This is the first full-length examination of that
episode, which wasn't just a crazy quirk of Georgia politics
(though it was that) but the decisive battle in a struggle between
the state's progressive and rustic forces that had continued since
the onset of the Great Depression. In 1946, rural forces aided by
the county unit system, Jim Crow intimidation of black voters, and
the Talmadge machine's "loyal 100,000" voters united to claim the
governorship. In the aftermath, progressive political forces in
Georgia would shrink into obscurity for the better part of a
generation. In this volume is the story of how the political,
governmental, and Jim Crow social institutions not only defeated
Georgia's progressive forces but forestalled their effectiveness
for a decade and a half.
John Engler, former Governor of Michigan, once claimed that
redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can
take. Academicians and political leaders alike, however, have
regularly debated the ideal way by to redistrict national and state
legislatures. Rather than being the pure process that Governor
Engler envisioned, redistricting has led to repeated court battles
waged on such traditional democratic values as one person, one
vote, and minority rights. Instead of being an opportunity to help
ensure maximum representation for the citizens, the process has
become a cat and mouse game in many states with citizen
representation seemingly the farthest idea from anyone's mind. From
a purely political perspective, those in power in the state
legislature at the time of redistricting largely act like they have
unilateral authority to do as they please. In this volume,
contributors discuss why such an assumption is concerning in the
modern political environment.
John Engler, former Governor of Michigan, once claimed that
redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can
take. Academicians and political leaders alike, however, have
regularly debated the ideal way by to redistrict national and state
legislatures. Rather than being the pure process that Governor
Engler envisioned, redistricting has led to repeated court battles
waged on such traditional democratic values as one person, one
vote, and minority rights. Instead of being an opportunity to help
ensure maximum representation for the citizens, the process has
become a cat and mouse game in many states with citizen
representation seemingly the farthest idea from anyone's mind. From
a purely political perspective, those in power in the state
legislature at the time of redistricting largely act like they have
unilateral authority to do as they please. In this volume,
contributors discuss why such an assumption is concerning in the
modern political environment.
The 2010 elections were one of the most highly anticipated midterm
elections in our nation's recent history. After the historic 2008
election, in which America elected its first black president, Sarah
Palin's involvement and the emergence of the Tea Party in the 2010
congressional elections had the potential to transform the
composition of congress and set the stage for the nation's politics
for the next decade, or even the next generation. In this new
edited volume, Charles S. Bullock III collects original
contributions from top political scientists to evaluate Sarah Palin
and the Tea Party's role in the 2010 midterm elections. Key States,
High Stakes focuses on states where Republicans had the chance to
pick up Senate seats, as well as examining GOP Senate primaries if
they involved a Palin or a Tea Party nominee facing an
establishment favorite. Bullock concludes the anthology with a
chapter on the legacy of the Tea Party and of Sarah Palin on
American politics. One thing is certain. In terms of control of the
House and Senate (and its effect on President Obama's policy
agenda), the prospects for the 2012 presidential race, and the
long-term viability of the Tea Party movement, the stakes in the
2010 midterm elections could not have been higher.
This book will prepare readers for the redistricting of
congressional, state legislative, and local collegial bodies that
will follow the 2010 Census. Almost every state legislature will
devote extensive time to redrawing its own districts along with the
state's congressional districts during 2011-2012. Chapters 2
through 5 cover the major factors involved in drawing the new maps.
These are arranged in the order of their legal prominence beginning
with the need for equal populations before moving to the obligation
to avoid discriminating against minorities. Chapter 4 examines the
other elements weighed by those redrawing districts: compactness,
respect for political boundaries and communities of interest.
Chapter 5 deals with partisan considerations and consequences of
redistricting. More than any other state, Georgia has probably been
the locale for more precedent-setting cases and had more difficulty
securing Department of Justice approval of its districting plans.
Chapter 6 uses Georgia as a case study to demonstrate the
application of a number of concepts discussed in the preceding four
chapters. The seventh chapter provides a preview of the post-2010
redistricting with a discussion of projections of likely
congressional reapportionment. The final chapter also considers how
the changes in the Voting Rights Act adopted in 2006 may affect the
next round of redistricting.
On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision
in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting
rights law. The decision - the culmination of an eight-year battle
over the power of Congress to regulate state conduct of elections -
marked the closing of a chapter in American politics. That chapter
had opened a century earlier in the case of Guinn v. United States,
which ushered in national efforts to knock down racial barriers to
the ballot. A detailed and timely history, The Rise and Fall of the
Voting Rights Act analyzes changing legislation and the future of
voting rights in the United States. In tracing the development of
the Voting Rights Act from its inception, Charles S. Bullock III,
Ronald Keith Gaddie, and Justin J. Wert begin by exploring the
political and legal aspects of the Jim Crow electoral regime.
Detailing both the subsequent struggle to enact the law and its
impact, they explain why the Voting Rights Act was necessary. The
authors draw on court cases and election data to bring their
discussion to the present with an examination of the 2006 revision
and renewal of the act, and its role in shaping the southern
political environment in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections,
when Barack Obama was chosen. Bullock, Gaddie, and Wert go on to
closely evaluate the 2013 Shelby County decision, describing how
the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court created an appellate
environment that made the act ripe for a challenge. Rigorous in its
scholarship and thoroughly readable, this book goes beyond history
and analysis to provide compelling and much-needed insight into the
ways voting rights legislation has shaped the United States. The
Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act illuminates the historical
roots - and the human consequences - of a critical chapter in U.S.
legal history.
The last presidential election showed without a doubt the
prominence of the Southern states in the national political
landscape. When it first appeared in 1998, The New Politics of the
Old South broke new ground by examining Southern political trends
at the end of the twentieth century. Now in its third edition, with
all chapters extensively revised and updated to cover events up
through the 2004 elections, the authors continue their unique
state-by-state analysis of political behavior. Written by the
country's leading scholars of Southern politics, and designed to be
adopted for courses on Southern politics (but accessible to any
interested reader), this book traces the shifting trends of the
Southern electorate and explains its growing influence on the
course of national politics.
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